TMZ is a tabloid news website that debuted on November 8, 2005. It was
a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures Productions, a division
of Warner Bros., until Time Warner divested AOL in 2009. The name TMZ
stands for thirty-mile zone, the historic "studio zone" within a
30-mile (50 km) radius centered at the intersection of West Beverly
Boulevard and North La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles,
California.TMZ's managing editor is Harvey Levin, a
lawyer-turned-journalist who was previously a legal expert for the Los
Angeles television station KCBS-TV. The site claims that it does not
pay for stories or interviews; however, Levin has admitted that TMZ
does "sometimes pay sources for leads on stories". A companion
television series, TMZ on TV, debuted on September 10, 2007.Three
months prior to the official launch of TMZ, America Online (AOL) had
hinted that it was planning to launch a Hollywood and
entertainment-centric news site that would be produced in conjunction
with Telepictures Productions and had shown interest in launching a
website featuring a focus mainly on celebrities. At the time of the
launch, AOL confirmed that the site would primarily feature and
consist of Hollywood gossip, including interviews, photos and video
footage of celebrities and information pertaining to industry news on
movies, television shows, etc. The site was described as "an effort to
further feed the current American obsession with celebrities". Mike
Shields of MediaWeek.com wrote, "the site also boasts of an expansive
collection of archived star photos and videos", allowing fans to
"trace changing hairlines and waistlines of their favorites performers
over the years". TMZ Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter